Undercover officers said the fact that the listings can be traced helps them pinpoint the girls and sometimes leads them to pimps.įor her part, Roslyn has a strong message for the man arrested in connection with her daughter's detention.WASHINGTON - For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described as one of the Internet’s largest child pornography websites, allowing users to download thousands of illicit images and videos from a government site in the Washington suburbs. "It would be a bigger problem if we removed that category and had those ads spread throughout the site," said Jim Buckmaster, chief executive officer of Craigslist.īoth legal experts and police say Craigslist bears no legal responsibility. "You could put stuff in your ad like 'wet and wild,' 'fun and sassy,' things like that to catch their attention, to make them want you," she said.Ĭraigslist executives said they abhor the fact that their site is being used for child prostitution but believe that the problem could be harder to track if they removed the category. Even though she understood the seriousness of what she was doing, she said she didn't care.
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She said she used Craigslist because it was free and she could post dozens of ads a day. I wanted to feel important," said the teen, who did not want to be identified. To help answer that question, Sacramento police made arrangements for CNN to interview a 14-year-old girl who said she'd started selling herself as a prostitute at the age of 11. Police say most of the ads appear on Craigslist, the popular and free Internet classifieds site, under a category named "Erotic Services." Even though Craigslist has posted a bold disclaimer warning against human trafficking and the exploitation of children, law enforcement officials said it doesn't seem to deter girls from posting the ads or men who are searching for sex.īut why would a girl sell her body online? Now, we got to keep her away from the Internet." You don't realize how dangerous the Internet is. "Because you don't want to see your children involved in things like this. "It hurt," said Roslyn, who appeared weary and a bit shell-shocked.
The couple's daughter, who had just turned 17, was detained but not arrested. He pleaded not guilty to charges of statutory rape and was held in lieu of $35,000 bail. Vice squad officers found her in a downtown apartment with Bruce William Carter, a 21-year-old man who police said had posed on the Internet holding fistfuls of cash. They waited for hours at police headquarters in hopes that their daughter would be found. Roslyn and Sergio's daughter had been missing for more than two weeks. Watch how investigators work to catch pimps »Ĭhild prostitution is even tougher on the parents of these girls. Oftentimes, their work is heart-wrenching. It is not uncommon for the officers on the unit to put in 30-hour shifts. "I think everybody on the team has different reactions to it, but I just flat out get really angry that some guy thinks he can take this girl and basically deprive her of her freedom." "It really makes me angry," Seyffert said. cities, is to decriminalize the girls and concentrate on catching the pimps who control them. The goal of the program, which is now in almost 30 U.S. Sacramento police are working with the FBI as part of a nationwide campaign to combat underage prostitution called Innocence Lost. Surviving is basically what they're doing."
Pam Seyffert of the Sacramento Police Department. which is to stop what they're doing," said Sgt. "We're asking these girls to do a big thing. Those are just the official figures investigators think there are many more child prostitutes out there. Most of the girls were released to foster or group homes. Police have nabbed nearly 70 girls under the age of 18 since 2005.
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